I was hoping to get some help in the IRC, because I have no wifi in Blag. I haven't installed it yet but I'm pretty sure that I should prepare beforehand otherwise I'll have a tough time later.

My Usb wireless has an open source driver, and Blag recognized it yet it won't fetch any networks at all. My assumption is that the driver didn't come preinstalled with the OS and thus I might need to install it myself.

If anyone knows where I may find the correct atheros driver and give me some tips as far as how to get it installed, that would be appreciated.

That's about what I know for now. I have Blag installed and it's got no internet. That means that I've booted puppy linux and mounted the Sda partition. I'll have to download the correct rpm into the sda partition in order to install the correct driver.

ar9170-firmware seems to be non-free; so you'll not find it on blag repo!
Second: blag uses a kernel called linux-libre that is deblobed and that doesn't authorise to load non-free firmware.
If if you want to use your wifi USB stick you'll have to install a non-free kernel from fedora (or recompile your kernel linux-libre for it to load ar9170-firmware).

I thought all Atheros were open-source.
It makes me really sad that you are never really told what's up or down in this world, you have to wait until you fall on either your head or rear before you can tell the difference.

I bought the Netgear WG111v3 after reading this post. Although the OS recognizes the adapter, I cannot connect to my router (Linksys WRT54GS v7.2). I've manually entered my SSID and WPA key, and switched from Ad-hoc to Infrastructure mode to no avail. Apparently, <b>something needs to be done</b>... Please choose your words a little more wisely. I'm really digging Blag and hope I can get past this snag. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I think it comes from your router security configuration. Maybe some address mac security turned on that blocks the mac address of your wifi card. So remove it or add your mac address to the router configuration.

Not-Associated
You should associated your PC with your Box
Normally you should have got a button on the box to do that.
Or insert manually your mac address in the security panel of your box (section wireless)

Not-Associated You should associated your PC with your BoxNormally you should have got a button on the box to do that.Or insert manually your mac address in the security panel of your box (section wireless)

Do you mean router when you say box? At the moment, there is nothing other than a WPA key preventing any computer from accessing the network. I don't see how restricting that access to the MAC addresses of particular NICs would help one gain a connection here. I wouldn't attempt this as there are about 20 pieces of equipment that access this network. Also, using this method surely isn't working 'without anything to do' :D

I've used several wireless adapters (with non-free firmware) over the last few years under other GNU/Linux distributions and know how things are supposed to work. No matter what I try, I don't get my coveted little list of access points in the nm-applet. I tried using the WG111v3 with a Linux Mint Live DVD and I couldn't get it to work either, which was unexpected. I've yet to test it in a Windows environment, or with a different router. Perhaps mine just doesn't work properly?

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